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This e-text is based on the 1914 edition. Inconsistent hyphenation (e.g., 'semi-acid'/'semiacid') and spelling ('purée'/'puree') have been retained.

Italic passages in the original version has been placed between underscores (italic); text in small caps have been symbolised by forward slashes (/small caps/).

The following passages have been corrected:

# Table of Contents: 'Low Vitality (continued)' has been added # Table of Contents: Page number for 'Colds' changed to match the original; corresponding header added to the text # p. 921: 'LaGrippe' --> 'La Grippe' # p. 971: 'cyicken' --> 'chicken'

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DIET

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DIET

A Treatise on the Food Question

IN FIVE VOLUMES

/Explaining, in Plain Language, the Chemistry of Food and the Chemistry of the Human Body, together with the Art of Uniting these Two Branches of Science in the Process of Eating, so as to Establish Normal Digestion and Assimilation of Food and Normal Elimination of Waste, thereby Removing the Causes of Stomach, Intestinal, and All Other Digestive Disorders/

BY /Eugene Christian/, F.S.D.

/Volume IV/

NEW YORK THE CHRISTIAN DIETETIC SOCIETY 1914

/Copyright, 1914 by EUGENE CHRISTIAN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

/Published August, 1914/

CONTENTS

/Volume IV/

Lesson XV (Continued) Page

Low Vitality (continued) 863

Obesity 870

Neurasthenia 897

Malnutrition 901

Anemia 905

Locomotor Ataxia 911

Colds 915

Nasal Catarrh 925

Hay Fever 931

Asthma 935